The Carnivore Room in the AMNH's department of Mammalogy houses large cat skins with interesting origins, including one that was tagged "gift of Central Park Zoo, 1944" and another tagged "Lord & Taylor cold storage."

The key to this cafe full of rack mounts was long gone, and so the lock had to be picked so Cooper could gain entry.

A motley crew of specimens wait to have their carpet beetle infestations dealt with by a visit to the -20°C freezer located behind the silver door.

These newspaper-wrapped Cretaceous bones (75-65 million years old) have not been unwrapped since they were excavated nearly 100 years ago.

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This reminds me of that children's book where the little girl and her brother hide out in a museum- this is the sort of thing they'd spend the night investigating- not the stuff you can see during regular hours...delightful!